Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The doing of harm; mischief.
- noun Harmful or malicious nature or quality.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being maleficent; the doing or producing of evil.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Evil doing, esp. to others.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
harmfulness ormischief
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun doing or causing evil
- noun the quality or nature of being harmful or evil
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Besides providing all the requisite gore of a true-crime narrative, Never Enough suggests that no matter how tasteless, mindless and incompetent we may be, we're perfect Einsteins in comparison to the Kissel family, which is capable of committing any maleficence known to man, but utterly incapable of doing it properly.
An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008
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However, to understand how they explained maleficence, it is helpful to delve further into their worldview understandings.
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Lawyers are subjected to state bar association disciplinary boards in cases of abject negligence or maleficence, but let's just say that "do no harm" isn't part of their swearing in process.
Just Another Nuisance Malpractice Case aka TBTAM 2008
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I did not believe a white ghost indicated joy and success or that a black one augured ill fortune and maleficence.
Archive 2009-01-01 Young Geoffrion 2009
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I did not believe a white ghost indicated joy and success or that a black one augured ill fortune and maleficence.
The Stair Young Geoffrion 2009
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Respect for autonomy, beneficence, and non-maleficence.
Retainer Medicine,Social Justice and the importance of framing the debate james gaulte 2008
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Respect for autonomy, beneficence, and non-maleficence.
Archive 2008-01-01 james gaulte 2008
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Attack Ad: Divorce & Parental Neglect '08 yahooBuzzArticleHeadline =' Attack Ad: Divorce & Parental Neglect \'08 '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Article: Here\'s an attack ad slamming McCain and Palin for their moral maleficence. '
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This BS continues to happen, and the nuts on the other side of the fence continue to project their own maleficence on atheists, by implying at every opportunity they can get that its "atheists" that want to prevent people adopting kids, prevent people from worshiping as they want, etc., when, as in this case, its obvious just who it is that wants to create and enforce *precisely* that kind of legal system.
Reversed 1970 Adoption Decision Is Circulating In Blogosphere As Current Howard M. Friedman 2008
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Kitten-killing is like the international sign of E-vil, a universal metaphor for maleficence that ranks up there with demons, Nazis and Rush Limbaugh.
On Killing Kittens and Burning Bathtubs. | Mind on Fire 2007
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